Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display of "workshop material" is arranged to emphasize the continuity and development of ideas leading up to the filming of a Disney feature. Beginning with rough sketches of story ideas, the exhibit traces the growth of a film through more elaborate character development and various sketch-experiments in background design fixing the mood of the production...
Hollywood was the scene of another rewriting of the Declaration of Independence. Film Director Herbert Biberman, shooting a picture at San Pedro Harbor, watched a boat loading scrap iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After...
...transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose "Oh What...
...Disparus de St. Agil," recent French film after the novel by Pierre Very will be presented this coming week at the Institute of Geographical Exploration by the French Talking Films Committee...
Buck Benny in Paris, a troupe of shapely American chorus girls, gowns by je ne sais qui, a sprinkling of music, Joan Bennett, some gags and a plot from the days of the silent film-all together they go to make up "Artists and Models Abroad." Of course the film makes no sense whatever; it is a conglomeration of disjointed ideas, situations, people. But it does manage to be entertaining, fairly consistently. "Mother Nature's big mistake," our own rip-snortin' Buck, is stranded in Paris together with a few dozen bathing beauty winners, and not a penny...